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Kelli Cook

Reporter · US

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Kelli Cook

    Eyesore Next Door: 100 vacant, blighted homes in Memphis demolished in 60 days; city leaders say more to come (opens the original)

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    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The City of Memphis started its “100-Demo” campaign last month, targeting property owners who have ignored warnings for years to clean up and repair blighted, vacant structures across the city. City leaders say they are not done yet. An Impact Team investigation followed one woman’s fight against blight for about a year, after she asked the city for help demolishing a vacant home next to hers. “I found a possum in my house!” Sherley Miller said in August of last year. Next to he

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Kelli Cook

    Precious cargo: Woman claims mistake by airline cost her father’s final wish (opens the original)

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    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A two-minute miss during a flight transfer prevented a Mid-South family from having a final viewing of their father, according to his daughter. Marvin Ed Morgan spent years as the track announcer at Gleason Raceway, a dragstrip in Weakley County, Tennessee, before a progressive illness forced him to retire and he moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, to live with his daughter, Crystal Ladd. “I know you got a good home for me in Florida, but I know you got a better home for me

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Kelli Cook

    ‘Like something out of a sci-fi movie’: Memphian, former FBI agent recalls Ground Zero after 9/11 terrorist attacks (opens the original)

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    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Memphis woman had a front-row seat to the devastation in the hours following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Tracey Branch worked as an FBI special agent in Newark, New Jersey, at the time. Her team was tasked with collecting evidence with the agency’s Emergency Response team on September 11, 2001. “I was a Memphis girl, and I was 29 years old. I did not have family there. Cell phone coverage died. I was unable to talk to my family at all that day,” Branch said. “I remember

  4. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Kelli Cook

    New chief jailer search tops Sheriff Anthony Buckner’s priority list on first day (opens the original)

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    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Shelby County has a new sheriff facing longstanding problems at an overcrowded and underfunded county jail. Sheriff Anthony Buckner said his first order of business is hiring a new chief jailer. On his first day on the job, Sheriff Buckner offered a media tour of the nearly 45-year-old facility. Reporters were not allowed to film inside the building but were given a tour starting with the intake process. For the first time in eight years, all 10 escalators at the jail were

  5. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Kelli Cook

    Lee Harris leaves door open for future run for elected office as he wraps up two terms as Shelby County Mayor (opens the original)

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    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Lee Harris was elected to Memphis City Council in 2011. Four years later, he was elected to the state Senate, defeating two members of the Ford family. In 2018, he was sworn in as Shelby County mayor, becoming only the second African-American mayor of Shelby County. After two terms as mayor, Harris is returning to higher education. He will become a tenured law professor at the University of Mississippi. “So, there was nothing else that I was considering,” Harris said. “I t

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